I will read tomorrow night with Naomi Jackson at the Poetry Project at St. Marks, NYC. I am so honored to read there again! What a historical place!
Here is a link to the details: http://www.poetryproject.org/events/naomi-jackson-shelley-marlow/

Also, here is an interview that just came out: https://beautifulbizarre.net/2016/05/27/casting-spelling-spells-interview-shelley-marlowe/

Two Augusts in a Row in a Row is a novel about gender, love, grief and magic. It’s also about the life ingredients that make up a day: the common hum of work, strolls to the corner store for food, the way time collapses while stroking a cat’s fur or watching her sleep. ...Author Shelley Marlow writes with a fluid quality that pulls the reader through these events and passages, twining the workaday and the trippy together….Two Augusts in a Row in a Row makes a strong case for love in the face of all as the truest magic this life has to offer. ~ Heather Seggel, Lambda Literaryhttp://www.lambdaliterary.org/reviews/06/28/two-augusts-in-a-row-in-a-row-by-shelley-marlow/

"It’s a utopian book, even in the middle of dread climes and dire events, and it’s a book in which “magick” works in oracular turns that regularly trump old-fashioned realism and psychology...Two Augusts in a Row in a Row, like Raymond Queneau’s Zazie dans le Metro, is a love letter, between genres as well: it’s a bildungsroman, an anecdotal history of both performance art and recent pathways of gender subversion, it’s travel writing, porn, commedia dell’arte, epic poetry, postmodernism à la Bertha Harris’s Lover, etiquette guide, closet drama, reportage. And it has that strangely old-fashioned thing—charm, a spell.” ~ Kevin Killian in Bomb Magazine http://bombmagazine.org/article/7336618/shelley-marlow-s-em-two-augusts-in-a-row-in-a-row-em

Two Augusts In A Row In A Row, Shelley Marlow's new novel and the seventh book in Publication Studio's Fellow Travelers Series, is a love letter between generations of queer people. Set in New York City in 2001, we follow Phillip—a gender subversive/gender queer in search of grace and magic—through rich, sad, humorous language that is singularly Shelley Marlow's.

With spare, economical writing, Marlow creates rich parallel worlds...Marlow gives us that rare thing-- a sad and humorous character driven narrative that is rife with life, with wisdom. --Jeffery Renard Allen, author of Song of the Shank

Kevin Killian writes, "I've been dying for something first rate and innovative and have found this in Marlow's writing. Her hero, Phillip/Philomena...is the most enchanting and elusive central character in a novel since Cassandra in Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle. While many have compared Marlow to the late Jane Bowles, I would agree if only there was a loving and empathetic Jane Bowles, and now there is and here is her book."

You can find a copy of Two Augusts In a Row In a Row at Spoonbill & Sugartown, BGSQD, and other book sellers, and online here: http://www.publicationstudio.biz/books/294

Amazon reader review by Margot Becker of Two Augusts In a Row In a Row. http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/AW2KTFZNL5ATU/ref=pdp_new_read_full_review_link?ie=UTF8&page=1&sort_by=MostRecentReview#R1NXRZJOXG82QD

About Two Augusts In a Row In a Row:A new entry in Publication Studio’s Fellow Travelers Series is always cause for delight. The series, devoted to works of sexual and political adventure that interdict the demands of the market, is perfect for Shelley Marlow and her beautiful, picaresque, Two Augusts In a Row In a Row. I’ve been dying for something first rate and innovative and have found this in Marlow’s writing. Marlow creates an unforgettable array of characters in “old New York,” for the book takes place at the turn of this century when I suppose NYC changed forever. Her hero, Phillip, a gender subversive, is the most enchanting and elusive central character in a novel since Cassandra in Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle. While many have compared Marlow to the late Jane Bowles, I would agree if only there was a loving and empathetic Jane Bowles, and now there is and here is her book.

—Kevin Killian, author of Spreadeagle

With spare, economical writing, Marlow creates rich parallel worlds in her debut novel Two Augusts in a Row. Marlow's gender-confounding narrator, Phillip/Phillomena, gives voice to the present moment in New York City, pre and post 9/11. In doing so, Marlow gives us that rare thing--a sad and humorous but character-driven narrative that is rife with life, with wisdom.

—Jeffery Renard Allen, author of the novel Song of the Shank

Shelley Marlow’s writing and visual work is published in several publications including LTTR, AlLuPiNiT, Drunk­en Boat, saint-lucy.com, The Literary Review, Zingmagazine, New Observations, and Log Illustrated. Notes in Kyzyl, published in the St. Petersburg Review, describes traveling to meet shamans in Siberia. Shelley Marlow is the fiction editor for Ping Pong Magazine out of the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur. Marlow wrote the lyrics to a musical, UnKnot Turandot, performed at La Mama Theater, and presented International Witch Stories at the Italian Pavilion for the 48th Venice Bien­nial.

Group reading of Shelley Marlow’s new novel TWO AUGUSTS IN A ROW IN A ROW